diff --git a/code/modules/mob/living/carbon/xenomorph/hive_status.dm b/code/modules/mob/living/carbon/xenomorph/hive_status.dm
index c035dd255ce1..d41b7538dbd7 100644
--- a/code/modules/mob/living/carbon/xenomorph/hive_status.dm
+++ b/code/modules/mob/living/carbon/xenomorph/hive_status.dm
@@ -433,6 +433,10 @@
 				useless_slots++
 				continue
 
+		if(!(X in GLOB.living_xeno_list))
+			useless_slots++
+			continue
+
 		// Insert without doing list merging
 		xenos[index++] = list(
 			"nicknumber" = X.nicknumber,